To: President Donald Trump, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (CA-12), Rep. Bryan Steil (WI-1), Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (AZ-1), Sen. Mitch McConnell (KY-1), Sen. Catherine Cortez Mast (NV-1), Sen. Charles Schumer (NY-1), Sen. Lindsey Graham (SC-1), and Sen. Tim...
We the People ask Congress, POTUS and VPOTUS to Postpone approval of the Electoral College Vote ...
A dark cloud of illegitimacy hangs over the pending presidency of Donald Trump, given the facts below put out by former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. We request that the Electoral College vote scheduled for December 19, 2016 be delayed and if necessary Congress and/or SCOTUS should declare that President Obama remain as the chief executive until either a new date is set for an Electoral College vote once the following conditions are met, or if after these conditions are met it is determined a new election is needed, until after such new election.
Conditions:
1.Trump must release his tax returns.
The latest information as put out recently by Newsweek reveals numerous conflicts of interest with foreign countries that could leave President-Elect Trump with possible violations of the emoluments clause of the Constitution on Day One as well as possible blackmail by foreign countries. A scheduled press conference on this issue where Trump promised to explain how he would deal with these issues has been indefinitely postponed.
2. The CIA must make public its report on Russia’s intervention in the U.S. elections in support of Trump so that all may get an honest assessment of how serious the interference was and the electors can make an informed decision as per Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 68*
3. The Department of Justice under President Obama's direction must open a full investigation into Russian interference in the election and ties to the Trump campaign given the facts below.
President Obama already said the following on Monday night on Trevor Noah's The Daily Show: “You had what was very clear relationships between members of the president-elect’s campaign team and Russians, and a professed shared view on a bunch of issues,” Obama said. Given his statements, a full investigation not tied to a partisan Congress is in order.
Facts:
1. The CIA has found credible evidence that Russia intervened in the election in order to help Trump become president.
2. It has been suggested that Trump owes vast sums of money to Russian oligarchs, friends of Putin, who have also invested substantially in Trump’s enterprises -- which may explain why Trump won’t disclose his tax returns, which would show evidence of these deals.
3. Several of Trump’s key campaign aides – including his former campaign manager, Paul Manafort – have close ties to Russia. Between 2007 and 2012, Manafort received some $12.7 million in cash payments from a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine and has still been shown to be in touch with the Trump transition group.
4. During the campaign, Trump said he admired Putin, questioned whether the U.S. should continue to support NATO, and argued that Putin was justified in moving into Ukraine.
5. Trump chose as his Secretary of State ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, who is also close to Putin. In 2013, Putin awarded Tillerson the Order of Friendship, one of the highest honors Russia gives to foreign citizens. Tillerson came up through the ranks at Exxon by managing the company's Russia account. After becoming CEO, Exxon bet billions on Russia's vast oil resources through a partnership with Russian oil giant Rosneft, owned partly by the Kremlin. Putin himself attended the 2011 signing ceremony for the deal. Russia has already indicated it would welcome Tillerson being named America's top diplomat.
6. Trump was defeated in the actual voting by a startling—and still growing—2.8 million votes. Clinton’s popular vote victory margin is now over 2 percent, thus handing Trump the largest defeat suffered by a candidate elevated to the presidency by the Electoral College in modern history. Given that the difference in three key states that gave Trump the victory was a little over 79,000 votes and the aforementioned Russian interference, gives all the more reason to investigate such a close electoral margin.
*In Federalist No. 68, Alexander Hamilton wrote that the electors would prevent those with “Talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity” from becoming president. They would also stop anyone who would “convulse the community with any extraordinary or violent movements.” The second goal was to stop foreign interference in elections. In the founding period, the framers were extremely concerned about infiltration by rivals including Great Britain. In Federalist No. 68, Hamilton wrote that one major purpose of the Electoral College was to stop the “desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils.” He said that the college would “Guard against all danger of this sort … with the most provident and judicious attention” from the electors. The third goal was to prevent poor administration of government. This is a less well-known purpose of the Electoral College, but it is again expressly discussed in Federalist No. 68. Hamilton wrote that “the true test of a good government is its aptitude and tendency to produce a good administration,” and for that reason,...
Conditions:
1.Trump must release his tax returns.
The latest information as put out recently by Newsweek reveals numerous conflicts of interest with foreign countries that could leave President-Elect Trump with possible violations of the emoluments clause of the Constitution on Day One as well as possible blackmail by foreign countries. A scheduled press conference on this issue where Trump promised to explain how he would deal with these issues has been indefinitely postponed.
2. The CIA must make public its report on Russia’s intervention in the U.S. elections in support of Trump so that all may get an honest assessment of how serious the interference was and the electors can make an informed decision as per Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 68*
3. The Department of Justice under President Obama's direction must open a full investigation into Russian interference in the election and ties to the Trump campaign given the facts below.
President Obama already said the following on Monday night on Trevor Noah's The Daily Show: “You had what was very clear relationships between members of the president-elect’s campaign team and Russians, and a professed shared view on a bunch of issues,” Obama said. Given his statements, a full investigation not tied to a partisan Congress is in order.
Facts:
1. The CIA has found credible evidence that Russia intervened in the election in order to help Trump become president.
2. It has been suggested that Trump owes vast sums of money to Russian oligarchs, friends of Putin, who have also invested substantially in Trump’s enterprises -- which may explain why Trump won’t disclose his tax returns, which would show evidence of these deals.
3. Several of Trump’s key campaign aides – including his former campaign manager, Paul Manafort – have close ties to Russia. Between 2007 and 2012, Manafort received some $12.7 million in cash payments from a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine and has still been shown to be in touch with the Trump transition group.
4. During the campaign, Trump said he admired Putin, questioned whether the U.S. should continue to support NATO, and argued that Putin was justified in moving into Ukraine.
5. Trump chose as his Secretary of State ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, who is also close to Putin. In 2013, Putin awarded Tillerson the Order of Friendship, one of the highest honors Russia gives to foreign citizens. Tillerson came up through the ranks at Exxon by managing the company's Russia account. After becoming CEO, Exxon bet billions on Russia's vast oil resources through a partnership with Russian oil giant Rosneft, owned partly by the Kremlin. Putin himself attended the 2011 signing ceremony for the deal. Russia has already indicated it would welcome Tillerson being named America's top diplomat.
6. Trump was defeated in the actual voting by a startling—and still growing—2.8 million votes. Clinton’s popular vote victory margin is now over 2 percent, thus handing Trump the largest defeat suffered by a candidate elevated to the presidency by the Electoral College in modern history. Given that the difference in three key states that gave Trump the victory was a little over 79,000 votes and the aforementioned Russian interference, gives all the more reason to investigate such a close electoral margin.
*In Federalist No. 68, Alexander Hamilton wrote that the electors would prevent those with “Talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity” from becoming president. They would also stop anyone who would “convulse the community with any extraordinary or violent movements.” The second goal was to stop foreign interference in elections. In the founding period, the framers were extremely concerned about infiltration by rivals including Great Britain. In Federalist No. 68, Hamilton wrote that one major purpose of the Electoral College was to stop the “desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils.” He said that the college would “Guard against all danger of this sort … with the most provident and judicious attention” from the electors. The third goal was to prevent poor administration of government. This is a less well-known purpose of the Electoral College, but it is again expressly discussed in Federalist No. 68. Hamilton wrote that “the true test of a good government is its aptitude and tendency to produce a good administration,” and for that reason,...
Why is this important?
The CIA documented Russian interference in our election and Trump's deep unaddressed conflicts of interest throw the legitimacy of our election and the qualification of our future POTUS into question for every American! We must address this before the Electoral College vote is approved by Congress and Vice-President Biden on January 5, 2017.